The role of propriospinal interneurons in recovery from spinal cord injury

JR Flynn, BA Graham, MP Galea, RJ Callister - Neuropharmacology, 2011 - Elsevier
Over one hundred years ago, Sir Charles Sherrington described a population of spinal cord
interneurons (INs) that connect multiple spinal cord segments and participate in complex or …

Assessment of disability in patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury: a systematic review of the literature

JC Furlan, V Noonan, A Singh… - Journal of …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
Given the importance of accurately and reliably assessing disability in future clinical trials,
which will test therapeutic strategies in acute spinal cord injury (SCI), we sought to appraise …

Safety of intramedullary Schwann cell transplantation for postrehabilitation spinal cord injuries: 2-year follow-up of 33 cases

H Saberi, M Firouzi, Z Habibi, P Moshayedi… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2011 - thejns.org
Object Many experimental studies on spinal cord injuries (SCIs) support behavioral
improvement after Schwann cell treatment. This study was conducted to evaluate safety …

Controlled epi-cortical delivery of epidermal growth factor for the stimulation of endogenous neural stem cell proliferation in stroke-injured brain

MJ Cooke, Y Wang, CM Morshead, MS Shoichet - Biomaterials, 2011 - Elsevier
One of the challenges in treating central nervous system (CNS) disorders with biomolecules
is achieving local delivery while minimizing invasiveness. For the treatment of stroke …

Vascular disruption and the role of angiogenic proteins after spinal cord injury

MTL Ng, AT Stammers, BK Kwon - Translational stroke research, 2011 - Springer
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) can result in devastating paralysis, for which there is currently no
robustly efficacious neuroprotective/neuroregenerative treatment. When the spinal cord is …

A grading system to evaluate objectively the strength of pre-clinical data of acute neuroprotective therapies for clinical translation in spinal cord injury

BK Kwon, EB Okon, E Tsai, MS Beattie… - Journal of …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
The past three decades have seen an explosion of research interest in spinal cord injury
(SCI) and the development of hundreds of potential therapies that have demonstrated some …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating regeneration and functional integration of CNS neurons: lessons from zebrafish genetics and other fish species

VC Fleisch, B Fraser, WT Allison - … Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis of Disease, 2011 - Elsevier
Zebrafish possess a robust, innate CNS regenerative ability. Combined with their genetic
tractability and vertebrate CNS architecture, this ability makes zebrafish an attractive model …

Pharmacological interventions for spinal cord injury: where do we stand? How might we step forward?

AG Rabchevsky, SP Patel, JE Springer - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite numerous studies reporting some measures of efficacy in the animal literature, there
are currently no effective therapies for the treatment of traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCI) in …

Biomarkers for severity of spinal cord injury in the cerebrospinal fluid of rats

JM Lubieniecka, F Streijger, JHT Lee, N Stoynov, J Liu… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
One of the major challenges in management of spinal cord injury (SCI) is that the
assessment of injury severity is often imprecise. Identification of reliable, easily quantifiable …

Spinal cord injury therapies in humans: an overview of current clinical trials and their potential effects on intrinsic CNS macrophages

JC Gensel, DJ Donnelly… - Expert opinion on …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Macrophage activation is a hallmark of spinal cord injury (SCI) pathology. CNS
macrophages, derived from resident microglia and blood monocytes, are ubiquitous …